Tuesday, April 26, 2011

If you truly want to understand the arrogance of legislative Democrats consider this little item from Assemblyman Kelvin Atkinson (D-Isle of Man).

Sen. Don Gustavson has introduced a bill to repeal Nevada’s nanny-state mandatory motorcycle helmet law in every session he’s been in at the state Assembly.This year he did so again, only as a member of the state Senate.And this year, his bill received a hearing and was passed out of Sen. Shirley Breeden’s Transportation Committee even though Sen. Breeden herself opposes the bill.

Which has little Kelvin’s tighty-whities in a bunch.

Atkinson, you see, opposes treating grown adults as, well, adults.As such, and as chairman of the Assembly Transportation Committee last session, he killed Gustavson’s bill. And for the life of him, he can’t understand why Sen. Breeden didn’t kill the bill this year in her committee.

“How does a bill pass out of committee by one vote when the chair is opposed to it?” he asks with incredulity in a Las Vegas Sun story today. “I was a little alarmed by that.”

Alarmed?ALARMED??Kelvin Atkinson is “alarmed” that a committee chair allowed a vote on a bill that a majority of her committee favored?That “alarms” him?Seems to me such an arrogant attitude by Mr. Atkinson is what should be alarming.

U.S. Effort to Remove Drug CEO Jolts Firms

A government attempt to oust a longtime drug-company chief executive over his company's marketing violations is raising alarms in that industry and beyond about a potential expansion of federal involvement in the business world.
The Department of Health and Human Services this month notified Howard Solomon of Forest Laboratories Inc. that it intends to exclude him from doing business with the federal government. This, in turn, could prevent Forest from selling its drugs to Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Administration. If the government implements its ban, Forest would have to dump Mr. Solomon, now 83 years old, in order to protect its corporate revenue. No drug company, large or small, can afford to lose out on sales to the federal government, a major customer.

Barack Obama has proven he is more efficient than his predecessor in one area: He managed to diminish the history of two Christian nations in one presidential proclamation — on the eve of Easter. Obama campaigned in 2008 on a promise to call the Ottoman Empire’s systematic destruction of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915-23 a “genocide,” something none of his predecessors since Ronald Reagan had done. President Obama has broken that vow ever since. The day of remembrance of the genocide, April 24, fell on Easter Sunday this year, and Americans of Armenian heritage pressured Obama to follow through with his pledge this year.

Barack Obama has proven he is more efficient than his predecessor in one area: He managed to diminish the history of two Christian nations in one presidential proclamation — on the eve of Easter. Obama campaigned in 2008 on a promise to call the Ottoman Empire’s systematic destruction of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915-23 a “genocide,” something none of his predecessors since Ronald Reagan had done. President Obama has broken that vow ever since. The day of remembrance of the genocide, April 24, fell on Easter Sunday this year, and Americans of Armenian heritage pressured Obama to follow through with his pledge this year.

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Excerpt: The boomlet for Donald Trump as a Republican nominee for President of the United States ought to be a wake-up call for Republican candidates and Republican Party leaders alike. Why has Trump surged ahead of other Republican candidates and potential candidates in the polls? It is not likely that his resurrection of the issue of Barack Obama's birth certificate has aroused all this support. The birth certificate issue does more political damage to Obama's critics than to the president himself, because it enables the media to paint those critics as kooks. Nor are Donald Trump's political positions such as to create a stampede to his cause. Radio talk show host Mark Levin has rebroadcast Trump's varied and mutually contradictory statements on political issues and personalities over the years. It was a devastating revelation of Trump's "versatility of convictions," to use a phrase coined long ago by Thorstein Veblen. … Donald Trump is dangerous in at least two senses. If, by some tragic miracle, he should become the Republicans' candidate for president in 2012, that would be the closest thing to an iron-clad guarantee of a second term in the White House for Barack Obama.

White House Working on Executive Order That Critics Say Will Stifle Political Speech

President Obama and Sen. Charles Schumer, New York Democrat. (AP Photo)

Washington (CNSNews.com) – In what the White House calls a push for transparency, a pending executive order would require companies doing business with the federal government to disclose political contributions to independent groups, but would not place the same requirement on public employee unions or federal grant recipients that typically donate to Democrats.

This is an actual college course from University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) and University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). In the course, Professors Judy Ancel and David Giljam (Self-Confirmed Communist) instruct students on how fear, intimidation and, even, industrial sabotage are important and, often, necessary tools for union activists.

In this new video, the professors make clear that they aren’t just speaking in theoretical terms. Union official David Giljum recounts several anecdotes where he, or other union officials, used threats to strengthen their negotiating positions (or simply get two-weeks paid time off work). Professor Ancel recounts favorably a tactic used by a friend of hers in a union protest in Peru. (Her story will be particularly interesting to any cat lovers out there.)

Among other despicable acts they freely admit to; hey actually sacrificed cats to "short out" power plants to further their cause. So where is PETA?

With violent crime and murder on the rapid rise along our
border states from emboldened Mexican drug cartels operating
within the U.S., Department of Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano says...

"The borders are better now than it ever has been."

She even staunchly refuted claims made by The National
Border Patrol Council that pointed to the murders of three
agents saying, "There is a perception that the border is
worse now... That is wrong."

On Easter Sunday, Barack Obama continued perhaps his least recognized redistribution policy: the redistribution of respect. Not content to betray Armenian Christians, he insulted all their brethren in the faith. On Holy Saturday, Obama issued a statement on the Armenian genocide that studiously refused to admit the Muslim murder of 1.5 million Christians rose to the level of "genocide." However insufficient the proclamation was, it was better than other American portions of the Body of Christ got. Barack Obama issued no statement for the celebration of Easter, the holiest Christian holiday, whatsoever.

Obama has made no similar slight against Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, or Jainist holy days. He has not overlooked Nowruz, the Persian New Year reflective of Zoroastrianism. But the Founding Founders' faith and majority religion of most citizens of the United States no longer merits written recognition from the president.

Obama seems to have singled out Islam for special recognition and approbation....

Apparently the Constitutional Law taught by Obama was the laws of a nation other than the U.S.A.! The U.S. Constitution is the LAW OF THE LAND in the U.S.A. and clearly states its intent. Any interpretation CONTRARY to the U.S. Constitution can only be construed as words and nothing of value!

The subsidies to buyers of 'qualifying' insurance policies will induce sharp reductions in the supply of labor.

Supporters of ObamaCare acknowledge it will have some unintended consequences. Yet surprisingly little attention has been focused on the law's most problematic provision: government subsidies to help individuals and families purchase health insurance.
This new entitlement—which the chief actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates will cost more than $100 billion per year once it is fully implemented—will damage the country's long-term fiscal outlook. It also will introduce far-reaching negative effects on rewards to work and bizarre new inequities into American life.

As I said in the beginning; Trump is doing what we want by investigating Obama, but we all have questions for Trump and I do want an answer to this brush off. I'm not comfortable with any membership in Bilderberg....etc. We have time to evaluate; but we should start now before we get to invested in anyone. Debbiehttp://conservativebyte.com/2011/04/trump-tied-to-soros/#comment-25960King of conspiracy theoriesDonald Trump (what, you thought we were going to say Glenn?) has recently brushed off questions about George Soros during a recent speech. Glenn was curious as to why someone who seems game for something as out there as “birtherism” would dismiss a question about Soros.

“”Forget Soros. Leave him alone. He’s got enough problems. What about Soros, let’s talk about somebody else, sweetheart,” Trump said.“A lot of people think that George Soros is you know nothing to worry about,” Glenn said. “Anybody else find it odd that he would say let’s get off of George Soros?”“In December 2001, the New York Post mentioned a private party hosted by Roubini and Oliver Stone, George Soros, and Donald Trump,” Glenn said. “Roubini, George Soros, Donald Trump, that’s interesting company for a conservative candidate.”Could Donald Trump think that George Soros is too much of a conspiracy theory, or possibly a “booger bear” as Huckabee recently inferred?

MESSAGE:Vote NO on SB269 “Write in voting” can be used to manipulate our election process and allow the “loser” of a primary to run in the general election like Murkowski in Alaska.

(Please see explanation below)

This bill was voted out of committee by only 1 vote. Both Republicans voted NO. Majority Leader Senator Horsford voted for it reluctantly. Be sure to contact him. It’s very important to contact the Democrats as well as, the Republicans.

Barack Obama has done it again! He has made promises to people who have broken the law; and has lied in the process!

As Mr. Obama faces re-election next year, he has put into full gear his "pitch" to the Hispanic community---to get as many of their votes as possible! He made his "case" to the Spanish-speaking audience on Univision in a Spanish-speaking school.

In a cynical attempt to bleed even more from the Nevada taxpayers and job creators, the union bosses and their Democrat water carriers in Carson City are willing to lay off thousands of government workers.

That's right. Every government employee or department head who has testified in Carson City over the last couple of weeks, telling stories of the utter destruction that will be caused to the lives of those that will lose their jobs, has been part of a cynical ploy developed by Senator Horsford and his team designed to pit one class of Nevadan against another. Every Democrat Senator and public employee knows full well that there is really no need for any of them to lose their jobs. They know that they could renegotiate their contracts to bring their wages in line with the private sector workforce, and, thereby, save every single job! The problem is they will not do this because it would deprive them of a very powerful, albeit deceptive, bargaining tool.

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Congress Steps Up Probe of White House Health Reform Meetings

By Elizabeth MacDonald

Published April 26, 2011

| FOXBusiness

GOP members of the powerful U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee have stepped up their probe of secret back room negotiations and quid pro quo deals struck in health reform, after the White House stonewalled requests for detailed information and documents and only submitted a handful of press releases and a list of staffers in the health reform czar's office, Congressional sources tell FOX Business [FBN].

As FBN's Rich Edson reported last week, energy and commerce officials have largely stopped asking the Administration for information and instead are now targeting 12 interest groups and unions “identified by the White House as having been at the White House during the secret health care negotiations,” and who played a key role in crafting the reform legislation, the committee says.

The dozen targeted is up from an initial six groups. See the full list by clicking the link below...

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(Apr. 26, 2011) — Yesterday, April 25, 2011, in Madisonville, TN, Mr. Carl
Swensson attended a hearing at which he learned that Judge Donald Paul Harris
will be adjudicating the case against him.
The charge of obstructing a public meeting was made after Swensson attended acourt hearing in Knoxville on [...]